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Why does physics even work?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Neuroscientific Theory of Neural Dynamics

In principle, a neuroscientist who's paying attention in real time could perfectly predict the dynamics going on in your brain without recurse to some further hypothesized holistic property. In fact, suppose that's just wrong. It's an illusion, but it's somehow hardwired into us that we have this illusion of there's something further that's left out of a physical description. And to me, that connects really deeply with this larger question of what is out there and do we know that what we are experiencing the theories we're building from those experiences really reflect what's real in the universe or whether it's just a game we are putting together in our minds.

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